The Australian Women's Weekly

The Future is Female

The influential and the inspirational gathered at the Sydney La Trobe Financial Women of the Future lunch to celebrate and support the next generation of change-makers. Guests such as The Hon. Anna Bligh, Mahalia Barnes and Kylie Gillies listened as our finalists shared their passion for consent education, improving disability representation and domestic violence support, but in the end it was an innovative project to improve conservation efforts that took the big prize.

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